COMP3742 Intelligent Systems

Professor David Powers

2020

4.5

1 x 120-minute lecture weekly
1 x 60-minute seminar weekly
1 x 120-minute computer lab weekly

1 1 of COMP2711, ENGR2701
2 COMP2741 - Application Development
Must Satisfy: ((1) or (2))

1 of COMP8742, COMP9742 has been successfully completed

This topic will provide a basic understanding of Intelligent Systems and their applications, including a basic understanding and broad overview of Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Search methodologies, and supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning and Data Mining technologies. The topic provides a balance of theory and practice, with two lectures on theory or philosophy being complemented by seminar-style case studies on specific applications, including guest speakers. Practical work is largely undertaken and assessed in weekly computing laboratory sessions, with a variety of assignments including specification, programming and written tasks. Specific areas to be covered include methodologies and philosophical issues, the relationship of intelligent systems to human intelligence and cognitive science, applications to knowledge engineering, knowledge discovery, language processing, text and data mining, as well as selected topics relating to cognition, perception, visualization and classification/clustering.

To be able to specify, consult, deploy and implement intelligent software and systems
To understand and be able to employ Logic Programming, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Discovery paradigms and frameworks
To be able assess requirements and select or adapt appropriate methodologies, techniques and tools for the achievement of a task, including through interviewing personnel and reviewing literature
To be able to communicate with non-computing specialists and interdisciplinary specialists in the design of intelligent systems, learning paradigms or data mining applications
To develop an ability to work alone both in a team, including to integrate work and build extensible systems, and to negotiate an ethical solution acceptable to a diverse range of stakeholders

At the completion of the topic, students are expected to be able to:

Understand concept of heuristics and the basic methodologies of designing intelligent systems and developing learning and mining paradigms
Understand the basic foundations to deal with the broad range of intelligent systems, applications and literature, including producing and critiquing proposals and reports appropriate to the field
Weigh up the basic human factors, personal and team relationships and ethical considerations and risks that affect the design and employment of intelligent systems
Achieve basic intelligent behaviours in simple programs and systems
Develop a basic understanding of the power of heuristics and tricks and the human propensities that make for a good or a bad interface, and that either easily convince the user into accepting behaviour as human or conversely irk the user as being somehow inhuman
Become familiar with styles of programming and system development that are knowledge, rule and logic based rather than depending on low level step by step instructions

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